Ranthambhore

Well we had the best sleep! Comfy bed and it was warm with all the blankets. We woke up about 10:30 and quickly ran to the restaurant as breakfast finished at 11! Then Sud met us to help us get our tickets for the safari which ended up quite the challenge as we needed to get a photocopy of our passports and the power in the city was all out! Anyway all worked out in the end and we got our tickets. We came back home for some lunch even though we had not too long ago had breakfast and a couple of beers and before we could even finish our safari guide was here! We quickly skulled our beers, ran to the loo and Rudi scoffed his food down! We headed off into the jungle making one quick stop to pick up another couple that were joining us in the jeep. The jeep was very bumpy and although I had just been to the toilet I was busting again since I had just skulled two beers! So for the next 4 ½ hrs of bumpy jeep safari I had to hold! We saw lots of deer, antelope, peacocks, monkeys, crocodiles, plenty of birds in all shapes and sizes and at the very end we got a quick glimpse of a massive tiger! It was really funny as we were heading out of the park so all the jeeps and canters were all kind of together and one spotted the tiger and then it turned to absolute chaos! All the drivers were yelling at each other to back up and all the tourists are screaming and pointing! Our driver was amazing at driving backwards at high speeds! We got a second glimpse of the tiger but that was about it. The canter at the back of the line saw the Tiger for about 20 minutes as it crossed the road right behind there vehicle! Lucky people! We went in search of it again but there was just too many vehicles and people yelling that the poor tiger would have been frightened off and we couldn’t find it! Was all quite funny though but sad for the poor tiger too! So that was the safari, absolutely beautiful scenery too so not so disappointing we didn’t get a good look at the tiger. Rudi and I didn’t bring a warm jumper so we completely froze on the ride back once the sun went down and flying along in an open jeep! Not to clever! We walked down the street to get some more drinks for tonight’s part 2 of Jungle me Mangle and Sud will be here any second to pick us up! Will it be fish or chicken…we are hoping for fish but we don’t really mind as we are starving! Will write more if anything funny happens if not that’s it for today and we are heading on safari again bright and early tomorrow morning! Ok so I’m back! Nothing too exciting to say except we had such an awesome night with Sud! It was a little more relaxed as we knew what we were in for and tonight on the menu was chicken curry! The most amazingly fresh and tender chicken you can ever have! He tried to get fish but said when he went to the market he could smell it and it wasn’t very nice so he went for chicken instead! We had a few more drinks tonight and the boys smoked a little more! Cards again…Rummy…Sud won tonight…I think I forgot to say I won last night! Rudi improved on his score so go him! Hehe! Anyway such a fantastic night and Sud told us it is such an honor we want to have dinner with him. He said no one ever really treats him as nice as us and told us he has been talking to his wife about us saying we are like family! He is so nice! Think we have definitely made a friend for life!